Inara: "Mal, you don't have to die alone."Mal: "Everybody dies alone."Beginnings and endings, life and death.The opening scene with Mal's blood dripping through the grate pretty much said it all. Serenity is Mal's life. No reason for Mal to go on living if Serenity dies. Except the final scene where Wash was giving Mal a blood transfusion also said it all in a great big symbolic way. Mal